Nothing about the change to section 101. I'm surprised. This was quite a change for the D&C between 1835 and 1876.
MouriaDecember 3, 2015
@Stacy - the 1890 manifesto, or Official Declaration 1 as it is so called, is indeed canon:
"The Manifesto was formally presented to the Church at the semiannual general conference held in the Salt Lake Tabernacle in October 1890. On Monday, October 6, Orson F. Whitney, a Salt Lake City bishop, stood at the pulpit and read the Articles of Faith, which included the line that Latter-day Saints believe in “obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.” These articles were sustained by uplifted hand. Whitney then read the Manifesto, and Lorenzo Snow, President of the Quorum of the Twelve, moved that the document be accepted as “authoritative and binding.” The assembly was then asked to vote on this motion. The Deseret News reported that the vote was “unanimous”; most voted in favor, though some abstained from voting.22" (see: https://www.lds.org/topics/the-manifesto-and-the-end-of-plural-marriage?lang=eng)
Morover, Pres. Lorenzo Snow's statement at the general conference is included thereafter, saying:
"...as a Church in General Conference assmebled, we accept his declaration concerning plural marriages as authoritative and binding."
StacyDecember 1, 2015
#11. Woodruff's manifesto is NOT a section of the Doctrine and Covenants. If you pay attention to things, you might think this is obvious, but an awful lot of members talk as if Woodruff's manifesto is part of the D&C when it clearly is not. It is not a section of the D&C. It is printed AFTER the Doctrine and Covenants, as a historical reference, just like the 4 historical maps that are printed there too, immediately after the D&C. It is not canonized scripture, as the sections of the D&C are. You might think this is super obvious and who on earth would disagree, but when I tried to clarify this on the wikipedia pages for Woodruff's manifesto and the Doctrine and Covenants, and trolls immediately undid this very tiny clarification. Some people very much want to believe that the manifesto is somehow it's own section of the D&C.
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Betsy WilDecember 4, 2015
Nothing about the change to section 101. I'm surprised. This was quite a change for the D&C between 1835 and 1876.
MouriaDecember 3, 2015
@Stacy - the 1890 manifesto, or Official Declaration 1 as it is so called, is indeed canon: "The Manifesto was formally presented to the Church at the semiannual general conference held in the Salt Lake Tabernacle in October 1890. On Monday, October 6, Orson F. Whitney, a Salt Lake City bishop, stood at the pulpit and read the Articles of Faith, which included the line that Latter-day Saints believe in “obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.” These articles were sustained by uplifted hand. Whitney then read the Manifesto, and Lorenzo Snow, President of the Quorum of the Twelve, moved that the document be accepted as “authoritative and binding.” The assembly was then asked to vote on this motion. The Deseret News reported that the vote was “unanimous”; most voted in favor, though some abstained from voting.22" (see: https://www.lds.org/topics/the-manifesto-and-the-end-of-plural-marriage?lang=eng) Morover, Pres. Lorenzo Snow's statement at the general conference is included thereafter, saying: "...as a Church in General Conference assmebled, we accept his declaration concerning plural marriages as authoritative and binding."
StacyDecember 1, 2015
#11. Woodruff's manifesto is NOT a section of the Doctrine and Covenants. If you pay attention to things, you might think this is obvious, but an awful lot of members talk as if Woodruff's manifesto is part of the D&C when it clearly is not. It is not a section of the D&C. It is printed AFTER the Doctrine and Covenants, as a historical reference, just like the 4 historical maps that are printed there too, immediately after the D&C. It is not canonized scripture, as the sections of the D&C are. You might think this is super obvious and who on earth would disagree, but when I tried to clarify this on the wikipedia pages for Woodruff's manifesto and the Doctrine and Covenants, and trolls immediately undid this very tiny clarification. Some people very much want to believe that the manifesto is somehow it's own section of the D&C.
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